Random Questions Flashcards
Who led the victorious forces at the Battle of Tours?
Charles Martel
Saladin was the leader of ?
The Muslims during the Crusades, who battles Richard the lionhearted
Which of the following leaders brought Christianity to the Franks?
Clovis
Pope whose call to action resulted in the first crusade ?
Urban 2
What race was also called Norsemen or Northmen?
Vikings
Western Europe was reunited for the first time after the fall of the Roman Empire under who ?
Charlemagne
Who does a knight fight for based on his code of chivalry?
His feudal lord
His heavenly Lord
His lady
What effects of the crusades?
Trade expanded
Weakened power of the pope
A bitterness and hatred between Christians and Muslims
Who led the Norman conquest of England?
William the Conqueror
What ended the Middle Ages?
The end of the Hundred Years’ War
What made the English win many battles during the hundred year war?
Longbows
Vernacular language was?
The common language of the people
Who did Henry 2 marry to gain lands from France?
Eleanor of Aquitaine
What was the nagana carta?
Fist document guaranteeing rights in England
Impact of the three field system?
1 longevity: longer life
2 population increase
3 bigger & stronger work force
4 production increase by 66%
Russian culture is a mix of what?
Vikings and Slavs
Eastern Orthodox capital was located where ?
Constantinople
Russian emperor who sent missionaries out in four directions and brought back Eastern Orthodox was
Vladimir
The term the Abbasids used to refer to their Turkish slaves was..
Mameluke
Who was a Byzantium emperor who wrote a letter asking for help of the Pope?
Alexis Comnenus
Pope who agreed to help Alexis Comnenus & the Eastern Orthodox Christian (after the schism) ?
Pope Urban 2, because he though even though they spilt it was still right to help the easterners because they were Christian
Mongolians originated from where?
Asian steppes
Mongols were pastoralists meaning?
They domesticated animals and were nomatic
He Mongolian dynasty in China was called?
Yuan
Who conquered china for the Mongolians?
Kublai Khan
Why didn’t the Mongolians take over Japan?
Kamikaze (great wind)
Huguenots where who?
French Calvinists whom threatened the staunchly Catholic french monarchy.
Utopia means?
“No place”
Which region did the Renaissance begin?
Northern Italy
First book printed?
The Bible
The Aztecs thought the arrival of the Spanish marked the return of who?
Quetzalcoatl
The peninsular war was between?
France vs Spanish guerrillas
Who won the battle of Trafalgar?
Britain (Horatio)
Where is the site of napoleons last defeat?
Waterloo
The economic hardships that France faced in the late 1700s were largely due to long, costly hostility between France and who?
Great Britain
Who led a slave revolt that ended slavery on the island of Hispaniola?
L’overture
Who was the last absolute monarch in France before the revolution?
Louis XVI
What was a time period in Europe where people questioned accepted beliefs of the church and changed views concerning the natural world?
Scientific revolution
Who created checks and balances?
Montesquieu
What are three reasons for the French Revolution?
1 Gap between the rich & the poor
2 the third estate had no power
3 bad leading
4 debt
